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PART V - FACTORIES AND SHOPS
Factories Act, 1937.
There are one hundred and sixty-two factories with mechanical
power and five factories without mechanical power on the
Register, with a range of products including:-
Aircraft, bread and confectionery, building materials, car
accessories, caravans, carbon products, chocolate, cocoa,
coffee extracts, electrical transformers, electronic devices,
furniture, lubricating oil, optical lenses, radar,
gramophone records and gramophones, rubber products, tarmacadam,
steel wool and wood block floors.
Pull details of the inspections carried out and notices
served are set out in Appendix 1 to this report.
Outworkers.
Part VII of the Factories Act requires the occupier of a
factory who employs persons carrying out certain classes of work
in their own homes to supply a list of such persons to the District
Council every six months. There are 97 outworkers in the
district and 84 inspections were made; in every instance the
work was found to be carried out under suitable conditions.
Shops Act.
All parts of the Shops Act are administered, including hours
of closing, assistants' half holiday, Sunday trading, comfort and
welfare of assistants etc. The Act applies to 665 premises in
the district to which the Public Health Inspectors made 343
visits. In addition 11 tours of duty were undertaken outside
normal office hours i.e. in the evenings and on Sundays. As a
result three informal notices were served but in no instance was
it considered necessary to institute legal proceedings.
For the convenience of shopkeepers a stock of the statutory
forms which they are obliged to display on their premises, is
held in the Public Health Department.
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